Thyandyr's voxel engine

[Thyandyr]

Benchmarks

  Chunks cubed: 21
  Chunk count: 9261
  Chunk blocks cubed: 16
  Blocks array(+2) size: 5832

  Initialization etc: 190 ms

  Occupy ListLoad: 4 ms
    Per item: 0.000431918799265738 ms

  Creating chunks, please wait
  Create chunks one at a time: 10989 ms
    Chunks processed: 9261
    Per item: 1.1865889212828 ms
    Chunks with solids created: 544
    Per created: 20.2003676470588 ms

  Save chunks disk bulk: 10 ms
    Items: 544
    Per item: 0.0183823529411765 ms

  Save chunks file locations: 11 ms

  Create vertices, Indices: 965 ms
    Items: 544
    Per item: 1.77389705882353 ms
    Slowest item: 2 ms

  Render (all loaded): 49 ms
    Items: 544
    Per item: 0.0900735294117647 ms

  Render (all loaded): 1 ms
    Items: 544
    Per item: 0.00183823529411765 ms

  Updated frustrum: 0 ms

  Render (in frustrum): 1 ms
    Items: 185
    Per item: 0.00540540540540541 ms

[Chebmaster]

Is any sort of LOD planned?
I mean, those chunks missing their meshes: it would look nicer if instead of holes you rendered solid "plugs" as high as the highest block of the chunk missing its mesh yet. Then retract them into the ground smoothly after the mesh is generated.
Also, there could be other ways: (Planet Explorers had this implemented): LODs like, in the distance meshes are built by joining 8 adjacent blocks into one -- this way you can have a 4-chunk LOD mesh at the price of one.

[Thyandyr]

Yeah this is one of the issues I will address next.

[Thyandyr]

Is any sort of LOD planned?
I mean, those chunks missing their meshes: it would look nicer if instead of holes you rendered solid "plugs" as high as the highest block of the chunk missing its mesh yet. Then retract them into the ground smoothly after the mesh is generated.
Also, there could be other ways: (Planet Explorers had this implemented): LODs like, in the distance meshes are built by joining 8 adjacent blocks into one -- this way you can have a 4-chunk LOD mesh at the price of one.

I did a fast read and it looks much nicer than most other open sourced projects out there. It is even possible to figure the purpose of each unit!

Keep it.

Wow nice to hear. Especially since I consider the code quite messy. I am learning as I go, so some of it is at 'unclean' state. But as I get more comfortable with these things, the codebase also gets cleaner.

I have been having busy times during holidays and now at work... but good sign is that I am looking forward to when I get to work on the engine.

I will next concentrate on world class, and with that it allows smarter order of creating the chunks. Recursive chunk creation following the earth surface, so we can skip all chunks in the sky and underground, and thus be much faster and avoid the 'holes' that Chebmaster pointed out, and create underground in the background.

Then perhaps few more terrain types to make it a bit less unpleasant to look at. After that I guess would be the fun part of adding a bit variation to the landscape creation.

[Thyandyr]

Damn Rimworld. Had to uninstall it. Maybe progress ahad?